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standing - use in sentences
Converse of object
- pray: On Sundays and during the season of Pentecost one should pray standing and not kneeling.
- remain: Swinside had fifty five stones of which only thirty two remain standing.
Preposition: in
- doorway: I turned around and saw Judy standing in the office doorway.
- front: Young girl standing in front of a bike in Vietnam.
Adjective modifier
- mx1: A number of good top ten finishes have secured Mark Hucklebridge 81 points in the MX1 standings.
- unsupported: Hunt, K.J. and Gollee, H. and Jaime, R. and Donaldson, N. ( 1999 ) Feedback control of unsupported standing.
- advanced: The wearing of more elaborate textiles may indicate increased wealth or advanced social standing.
- international: The School offers research higher degree programs of international standing.
- long: Most of the clubs meetings are of long standing with fixtures having been held over many years.
- hard: There is now a barrier at the East end of Railroad Wood with hard standing for a very few cars.
Modifies a noun
- ovation: John, you get a standing ovation from me.
- stone: A sign points the way to Macleod's standing stone on the far side of the sand about 700 meters from the road.
- committee: The matter was referred back to the standing committee.
- army: The guerrilla force takes over from the standing army.
- order: Standing orders have swelled by just under £ 100 per month.
- wave: There were also another couple of good standing waves just down from this.
Noun used with modifier
- championship: Despite missing two of the first 10 races, Braun currently ranks sixth in the Daytona Prototype championship standings.
- long-: If they can bring new solutions to long- standing problems, that can only be of benefit to patients.
- league: Check the rally results or the fantasy rally league standings.
- acronym: F FTP An acronym standing for " File Transfer Protocol.
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